![]() Above all else, White observes, Paris is a walker’s city-not a “village” like Rome or a “backwater” like Zürich, but a city whose bounds can comfortably be traversed in a long evening’s stroll. ![]() The renowned novelist ( The Married Man, 2000, etc.) offers an intensely personal portrait of one of the world’s great metropolises.Ī big city, White quotes “a reckless friend” as saying, is “a place where there are blacks, tall buildings and you can stay up all night.” Paris fills the bill-and besides, the author adds on his own account, there you can buy heroin, “hear preposterous theories that are closely held and furiously argued,” and see some of the world’s most satisfying architecture. ![]()
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